I have tried acupuncture. She did traditional Chinese, medical, moxibustion and cupping for me.
The cupping was for my back I was still having a lot of pain from my job and my previous injury of 3 herniated disks. As I normally go tense this allowed enough relief for me to strengthen my back muscles enough to prevent a lot of pain. Massage, they didn’t do enough strong enough in a session to be effective. I had also tried the cortisone shots and chiropractic, which helped for putting my back in place my shoulder was severely out of alignment and my feet were very uneven but after that was ineffective, until years later when I activated the old injuries and was having sciatic nerve pain in mainly my right leg. Then we did traction and I did a daily hike and haven’t experienced that horrible pain since.
Back to moxibustion I loved it. She did it on my toes and I always felt energized after that. Well acupuncture did that to me anyway but esp so. There was one point of my right hand that I especially liked her doing, I had stopped having periods I was always irregular but I had stopped completely after some time a month or so they started again and this was the most regular time of my life. And if I was having a tough time with it this point regulated my flow and made it easier. I now haven’t had a cycle in over a year at 27.
I now do reiki, I love it in some ways more then acupuncture. Maybe because for one it is free or two I am either more open to it or it is more interactive. And I can use almost all the methods ar home when I need a boost.
This has affected my moods, relieved anxiety, made me more relaxed and approachable, helped me deal with a lot of emotional upsets etc. It has even helped me relieve a lot of tension that builds up over day to day in my back and probably prevented another reinjury. We chose beforehand what I need to work on and its like guided meditation but I can feel an electrical current and vibrations I also experience temperature changes throughout a session. Sometimes rarely a session has brought me to tears and other times her. It is very interesting and always evolving. I find I over all have a higher tolerance to life’s big and small upsets, that I am warmer and more open as a person also it is easier for me to find humor in situations also I am less influenced by the need to be perfect or feel compelled to please everyone and have been better about speaking up for myself and less of a doormat. Overall I am more positive person
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I freely admit that though these techniques help me a lot I often find myself telling me I should do practice daily at home or when a situation arises but I am not there yet.